Paper box



(No Model.) A J F. GQHOTGHKISS. I v PAPEBL'BOX. No. 413,784. PatentedOct. 29, 188-9.

V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK G. I-IOTCHKISS,'OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

P'APER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,784, dated October29, 1889.

Application filed October 29, 1888. Renewed September 25, 1889. SerialNo. 324,996. (No model.)

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK G. HOTCH- KISS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Paper Boxes, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to that class of boxes or receptacles which aremadefrom paper or similar material, and which are adapted to beflattened out for packing and transportation and to be readilyfoldedinto shape for use by the person who has occasion to employ them.Such boxes are used by retail dealers in candies, &c. a

The object of my invention is to provide such a box with integralcovering-flaps and cover-fastening devices, whereby, when the box isfolded and filled, it may be compactly closed or covered, so that thecontents cannot escape.

My invention will be hereinafter fully described, and its novel featurescarefully defined in the claim.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure *1 is aplan View of the flattened box'or box-blank; and Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the box as it appears when folded or nearly folded into shape toform a-receptacle, but before the cover-flaps are folded down.

The box is cut from a single sheet of paper or like material andproperly creased for folding. In Fig. 1 the dotted lines represent thecreases, the full lines show the box-blank as finished for the trade,and the broken lines (dot and dash) designate the outlines of certainparts of the blank before they have been folded in, as will behereinafter described.

1 represents the rectangular bottom of the box? 2 2 represent the endsor shorter sides of the box.

3 3' represent the longer sides of the box.

At the corners of the box the adjacent sides and ends are connected bygussets, each of which is divided by a diagonal crease into twotriangular plies e 4-. hen the boxblank is made, the ends 2 2 and thegussets are folded over inward upon the bottom and v slit 7 in the side3'.

sides 3 3, as indicated by the full lines in Fig. 1, and the ply 4 ofeach gusset is cemented or otherwise securely attached to the the endsor shorter sides 2 2 will also assume an upright position. Fig. 2illustrates this operation quite clearly, the view showing one side 3'upright and the other side 3 only partly upright or in place.

When the box-blank is formed into a receptacle in this manner, theseveral shorter coverflaps are folded in and the main flap 6 folded downon the box. This main cover-flap 6 is secured by means of a hook 7thereon, which is made to engage a suitable The box will then be firmand stiff and securely closed, so that its contents cannot possiblyescape.

The box may be square instead of oblong, and the minor cover-flaps 5 5and 6 may be of any suitable width. I prefer to cut the box-blank entirefrom a single sheet of paper, but it might of course be made from.pieces secured together by cement or the like in a permanent-manner. Inany case the box as furnished to the trade will be in one piece.

The plies 4: of the several gussets are cemented to the box-sides; butother means for permanently securing them may also be employed.

I do not claim herein the inwardly-folded corner-gussets, as these arenot new; but

What I do claim is As an improved article of manufacture, a folding boxmade from paper in one piece and consisting of the rectangular bottom,the sides 2 2, each having a cover-flap 5 on" its edge, the side 3,having on its edge the main cover-flap 6, the side 3', having onit-sedge the cover-flap 6, and the corner-gussets, each On the margin ofdivided by a crease into two plies 4 and 4', my name in the presence oftwo subscribing the plies 4 being permanently secured to the Witnesses.box sides, which they overlap, said cover-flap FREDERICK G. IIOTCIIKISS.6 belng provided wlth a hook which engages 5 a slit in one side of thebox when the box is XVitnesses:

closed. HENRY CONNETT,

I11 witness whereof I have hereunto signed J. D. OAPLINGER.

